Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre Walking to the End
This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focu
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Cristina Sánchez-Carretero Editor
Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre Walking to the End of the World
GeoJournal Library Volume 117
Managing Editor Daniel Z. Sui, College Station, USA Founding Series Editor Wolf Tietze, Helmstedt, Germany Editorial Board Paul Claval, France Yehuda Gradus, Israel Sam Ock Park, South Korea Herman van der Wusten, The Netherlands
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6007
Cristina Sánchez-Carretero Editor
Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre Walking to the End of the World
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Editor Cristina Sánchez-Carretero Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Santiago de Compostela Spain
ISSN 2215-0072 (electronic) ISSN 0924-5499 GeoJournal Library ISBN 978-3-319-20211-2 ISBN 978-3-319-20212-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20212-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015941497 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
The pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela is a pilgrimage to Land’s End. The far northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula where Santiago—the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia—is located was known from ancient times as Finisterre. The multiple connotations of the term Finisterre, now the place name of an Atlantic cape, are one of the factors behind the present recuperation of pilgrimage and its new forms. The pilgrimage to Santiago in the twenty-first century is a complex phenomenon in which postmodern cultural hybridization is made manifest. It is religious and secular, spiritual and corporal, local and global, real and virtual. Although this pilgrimage has always had an international dimension, this has been intensified with the improvement of technology and
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